High School Disability Awareness Curriculum
Supporting
High School
Disability Awareness
Tools to help your High School students:
- Communicate openly and honestly with their peers with disabilities.
- Show support for their peers and others in their community with disabilities.
- Understand disabilities with a broader/societal lens.
Curriculum Overview
The High School Disability Awareness Curriculum is a customizable toolkit with strategies and resources for nurturing the skills students need to develop the personal and social awareness that enables them to evaluate and understand differences of all kinds, make connections, and problem solve.
Materials include lesson plans, book lists with discussion questions, and video links with discussion questions.
SAMPLE RESOURCES
Lessons
Spark !5 Activities
The High School Disability Awareness Curriculum Includes:
- 40+ Lessons Within 12 Learning Modules (30 minute duration)
- 50+ Book Recommendations
- 10+ Call To Action Project Ideas and Resources
- 10+ Activities to Spark Discussion (15 minute duration)
Our curriculum resources are divided into 12 main modules:
• What is Empathy?
• Language & History Around Disability
• Assistive Technology
• Autism
• Learning Disabilities
• Hearing & Vision Impairments
• Social-Emotional Challenges
• Mental Health
• Physical Disability
• Cognitive
• Disability in the Media
• Famous People with Disabilities
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Portal Features
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Web-based: Access our portal on any browser, anywhere, anytime.
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Interactive Planners: Easily organize, retrieve, share, and collaborate with others.
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Gradebooks: Seamlessly keep track of student performance through our digital gradebooks. Gradebooks can also be downloaded as CSV files to easily integrate into other student tracking platforms.
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SEL Student Assessments: Assess student skills and understandings with premade and custom assessments. Assessments can be shared with students digitally and/or as printables.
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Integration: Integrate resources into digital student learning platforms (e.g., Google Classroom, Canvas, etc.) with fillable PDFs.
Curriculum
- Designed for educator customization.
- A variety of comprehensive curriculum resources are available to engage all learning styles. Resources include but are not limited to: lesson plans, book discussions, videos with discussion questions, and more.
- Annual updates to curriculum to ensure new resources are available at the start of each new school year.
- Standards-aligned: Social-emotional content is aligned with CASEL standards and disability awareness content is aligned with Common Core standards.
Educator Support
- Educator Implementation Guides available.
- Family Resources: newsletters and customizable welcome letters.
- Curated library of resources: valuable information and insights from other sources.
- Individual coaching and professional development are available.
Our Planners allow you to drag and drop the content you choose to a customizable plan for your classroom. Easily add and remove days and content. Durations for the content are shown and are tallied by day for easy scheduling.
Why Disability Awareness for High School Students?
People with disabilities represent the largest minority in the world yet our schools often avoid talking about disabilities. National data shows that students with disabilities are 2-3 times more likely to be bullied or excluded. Disability Awareness is a pathway to empathy, an essential component of social-emotional competence linked to career and life success. By creating opportunities for open, respectful discussion and hands-on activities, learners become aware of and understand differences, including disabilities. In this way, they develop lifelong skills for communicating effectively as collaborators, team members, and leaders. In this way, students are empowered to be agents of change who can model inclusion in their schools and beyond.
Ready to Find Out More?
Want to find out more about Changing Perspectives’ Disability Awareness Curriculum? Contact us and schedule a complimentary conversation to see how we can help.
